How <em>The Atlantic</em> First Made Sense of Jazz
In 1922, a musicologist imagined how future historians might judge the day’s jazz cynics.
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The year 1922 was an auspicious moment for America’s greatest original art form: A young cornetist named Louis Armstrong left New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver’s band, and the dowdy old Atlantic undertook its first to make sense of the new musical genre known as jazz.
